Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
After digging deep into the mining activity in Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today gave the go-ahead to the auction of mines in five districts — Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ropar, Mohali and Nawanshahr — but not before passing strictures on the government. Visibly annoyed, the Bench admonished the government …
The newly-formed Cabinet Commitment on Investment (CCI), floated by the government to fast-track big-ticket projects, has its task cut out. Among the 198 mega central sector projects costing over R1,000 crore under implementation, nearly half, or 81, are running behind schedule. These include seven projects being executed by the railways …
Over a month after an expert appraisal committee recommended the Peddar Road flyover for coastal zone regulation (CRZ) clearance, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is still awaiting an official clearance letter from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). This means that it will take at least another …
Giving a push to the much-delayed Pedder Road flyover, the union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has recommended the project for green clearance after being satisfied with the project proponent’s plans surrounding mitigation of noise and air pollution. The project has been stuck for over a decade for want …
Reiterating the concern that the proposed National Investment Board will have overreaching powers to the extent of even overruling the regulatory mechanism of green clearances, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh have separately written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking stringent safeguards in place before setting …
Observing that the heavy traffic brought in by the sea link is causing air and noise pollution at Worli Seaface, the National Green Tribunal, in its order released on Wednesday, asked the Delhi-based Central Road Research Institute to conduct studies and recommend a traffic plan or solution to help bring …
The Pedder Road flyover has got environmental clearance from the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), thus crossing perhaps the final hurdle on its way. Keeping in view residents' opposition to the project—proposed 15 years ago— on the grounds that it will increase air and noise pollution, the MoEF …
Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has rejected the steel ministry's charge that her department was delaying mining clearances that could potentially lead to law and order issues in forested tribal areas. "It is somewhat unusual and new, the argument that complying with environmental and forest regulations leads to …
With the powerful mining mafia opposing mandatory environment clearance, Punjab too is dithering on its implementation. Even as scarcity of sand and gravel is brewing trouble, the state government has yet to transfer the environment clearance of 23 quarries from its mining department to lessees. While a Supreme Court order …
The Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA), 2006 and its amendments thereafter require all new projects or activities and / or expansion and modernization of existing projects or activities listed in the schedule to the said Notification with capacity beyond threshold limits prescribed thereunder, to obtain prior Environment Clearance under the …
Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against holding up clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand, saying this would force the state-owned steel giant to scale down operations and could stoke Naxal activity in the tribal region. Verma’s November 30 missive to …
Under fire from the Ministry of Mines for the inordinate delay in clearing applications for renewal of mining lease, the State Government on Monday reportedly told the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) that it had expedited mining lease renewal activities. The CEC team headed by its member-secretary MK Jiwrajka …
Sending a stern message that it will not take lapses in environmental issues lightly, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, for the first time, sought action against a senior bureaucrat. The NGT is an independent judicial authority on environment al issues. Stating that the action of the then secretary of …
Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against delaying green clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand. Delays have led to the discontinuation of mining in the predominantly tribal areas, said Verma, cautioning this could trigger law and order problems and stoke naxal …
In what is an indication of the lack of big projects being initiated in the city, the three-year tenure of the two regulatory bodies that were constituted to check environmental degradation have ended without the bodies according approval to any project. However, the whole blame does not lie with the …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow approval of mining projects in Punjab, saying the alarming scarcity of construction material could lead to a law and order problem in the state. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Chief …
Mining companies in Goa have violated rules and regulation in their operations and extraction of ores by them should not be permitted till environment impact assessment is done, a Central Empowered Committee told the Supreme Court today. The apex court-appointed Committee in its report recommended that resumption of mining operations, …
The Union Ministry for Environment on Thursday filed a reply to the questions posed by a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court pertaining to surface mining and how many inches and feet one could excavate the earth. The court had also sought a reply on how mines …
The CEC set up the Supreme Court submitted this interim report on its investigation into illegal mining by various entities in Goa. It includes details about the loss to the environment and the economy by way of illegal mining. Report (interim) of the CEC in writ petition (civil) no. 435 …
The Cabinet is likely to decide on setting up a National Investment Board ( NIB) at a meeting scheduled tomorrow. The panel of senior ministers could also take up the proposals on a new investment policy for urea and continuation of additional compensation to indigenous manufacturers of potash and phosphorus, …
